Guest columnist -- Jim Croce on "Age"

I'm taking the easy way out. It's going to be a busy week for me so I'm offering you to The 6th Estate's first guest columist, the late folksinger Jim Croce. Being dead, Jim has a lot to say about life, time, the roller derby and washing cars, but his most salient reflections are on age and the paths we choose in life:


Age
Words and Music by JIM & INGRID CROCE

1.
I've been up and down and around and 'round and back again
I've been so many places I can't remember where or when
And my only boss was the clock on the wall and my only friend
Never really was a friend at all

CHORUS:
I've traded love for pennies, sold my soul for less
Lost my ideals in that long tunnel of time
I've turned inside out and around about and back and then
Found myself right back where I started again

2.
Once I had myself a million, now I've only got a dime
The diff'rence don't seem quite so bad today
With a nickel or a million, I was searching all the time
For something that I never lost or left behind

(Repeat Chorus)

3.
Now I'm in my second circle and I'm headin' for the top
I've learned a lot of things along the way
I'll be careful while I'm climbin' 'cause it hurts a lot to drop
And when your down nobody gives a damn anyway

(Repeat Chorus)

Words and music copyright by Jim and Ingrid Croce. Lyrics courtesy of Fretman.

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